VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference
"Polar Bear Universe: Effective Cooperation in the Arctic"

March 18-21, 2025

About Conference

The conference is a landmark event in the comprehensive study, conservation and use of the resource potential of Arctic ecosystems with the aim of increasing the efficiency of scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the Arctic regions of Russia.

Key topics:

Study, conservation and use of Arctic ecosystems
Scientific and production support for socio-economic and scientific and technological development of the Arctic
Development of infrastructure, energy and transport
Ensuring environmental and technosphere safety in the Arctic
Digitization and informatization of activities
Innovation, efficient technologies and best practices
Staffing of research activities
Involvement of youth in the development of the Arctic region
Development of the volunteer movement and citizen science
Environmental education and implementation of cultural projects

Conference organizers

Support of the Conference

Conference Program

Project of the main program

"Technosphere Safety in the Arctic" program architecture

"Polar Bear Universe" conference program architecture

"Technosphere Safety in the Arctic" program architecture

Guests and Speakers

Aleksandr Kozlov

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation

Vladislav Kuznetsov

Governor of Chukotka Autonomous District

Leonid Agafonov

Managing Director, EastRussia, Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East

Svetlana Akulova

General Director of Moscow Zoo

Natalia Amburtseva

Advisor to the Secretariat of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology

Amirkhan Amirkhanov

Advisor, Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

Alexey Arushanyan

Strelka Design Bureau Project Director

Elena Aseeva

Acting Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Arctic Affairs

Sakhamin Afanasyev

Senator of the Russian Federation, Member of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Governance and Northern Affairs

Ulyana Babiy

Head of the Scientific Department of the Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve

Olga Balabkina

Deputy Chairman, The Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Dmitry Bannikov

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Fisheries of the Murmansk Region

Alexey Barakov

Deputy Head of the Northern Directorate for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

Yuri Bezdudnyi

Governor of the Nenets Autonomous District

Stanislav Belikov

Head of the Laboratory, FSBI "VNII Ecology"

Anastasia Belyakova

Head of the Strategic Development Division, The Department of Economic Development of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

Natalia Belyakova

Director of the Department of Expeditionary Activities and Tourism Development, "Russian Geographical Society"

Maria Berestevich

Advisor to the Arctic Region Security Development Department of the Department of Educational, Scientific and Technical Activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

Vyacheslav Bizikov

Deputy Director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Mikhail Bondar

Deputy Director for Science and Environmental Education of Taimyr Nature Reserves

Vitaly Borisyuk

Deputy Head of the Wildlife Conservation Department of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Evgeny Borodin

Veterinarian of the Rostov-on-Don Zoo

Anatoly Brushkov

Head of the Department of Geocryology, Faculty of Geology, Lomonosov Moscow State University"

Alexander Blokhin

Head of the Scientific Research Laboratory, Associate Professor of the Department of Automobiles and Tractors at the Institute of Transport Systems of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, General Director of Amphibious All-Terrain Vehicle Factory LLC

Anna Bykova

Member of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Evgeny Bykov

Engineer of the Department of Biomedical Safety at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Alexey Varyatchenko

General Director of Unmanned Aircraft Systems LLC (BAS)

Egor Vereshchagin

A representative of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Russian Federation living in the territory of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Svetlana Vetrova

Head of the branch – V.A. Rusanova House Museum

Maria Vladimirtseva

Leading Researcher at Lena Pillars National Park

Oleg Volkov

Chairman of the Management Board of the Fund for the Development of Environmental and Socially Significant Projects "Arctic Resource Center"

Oleg Volkov

General Director of The Training And Consulting Center For Civil Defense And Emergency Situations "Basis"

Denis Wolf

Deputy Director of the Russian Environmental Science Center of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources

Natalia Vorobyova

Employee of the Republican zoo "Ortho-Doydu" named after V. G. Alekseev Sakha (Yakutia)

Grigory Voskoboinikov

Head of the Laboratory of Algology, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Marat Gabbasov

Deputy Director, The Department for Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic

Bogdan Gavkalyuk

Head, The St. Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

Maria Gavrilo

Senior Researcher at the Arctic Shelf Laboratory of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Alexander Gavrilyuk

First Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Renat Gaynetdinov

Director of the Strategic Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Transport

Marina Galeshchuk

Leading specialist of the Moscow Zoo, coordinator of the polar bear population program in nature

Andrei Garanin

Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Olga Gershenzon

Deputy General Director of Lorett LLC

Rustam Gilmutdinov

Professor of the Department of Animal Husbandry Technology and Zoo Hygiene of the Kazan State Academy of Veterinary Medicine named after N.E. Bauman, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Alexander Govorin

Advisor to the CEO of SAGA Electronics

Mikhail Gordin

Rector, The Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Mira Gladysheva

Researcher at the Ust-Lensky State Nature Reserve

Andrey Grachev

Vice President for Federal and Regional Programs, Norilsk Nickel

Roman Grebenkov

Chef, participant of the expedition to the North Pole on the icebreaker "50 years of Victory"

Mikhail Grigoryev

Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Director, Gekon LLC

Dmitry Gromov

Head of the Department of Passenger Transportation and Tourism PJSC Lena United River Shipping Company

Alexander Gruzdev

Senior Researcher at the Gydansky State Nature Reserve

Alexander Danilov

Senior Researcher, St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II

Dmitry Danilov

Head of the development of expedition cruises of the Vasta Expedition of the Panarctic Star tour operator

Mikhail Dankin

Co-chairman of the All-Russian Ecological public Movement "Ecosystem"

Boris Dvorkin

Film director, member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, head of the project "Unknown Heroes of the North"

Boris Dzeboyev

Deputy Director for Science, Federal State Budgetary Science Institution Geophysical Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Maxim Dubinin

General Director of NextGIS LLC

Ivan Dorosh

Head of the Scientific Department of the Pasvik State Nature Reserve

Polina Dorosh

Specialist in Environmental Education of the Pasvik State Nature Reserve

Dulustan of the Deacons

Deputy Director of the Lena Pillars National Park

Alexander Dyachkovsky

Director of the Ust-Lensky State Nature Reserve

Yelena Yevtyukhova

Member of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities Affairs

Victor Yelistratov

Professor of the Department of Renewable Energy Sources, Gubkin Russian State University of Petroleum and Gas (National Research University)

Yekaterina Yemets

Deputy Director of Ecosystem

Olga Yepifanova

Member of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Nature Management

Ruslan Zhostkov

Senior Researcher, O.Y. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences

Anastasia Zhukova

Representative from Chukotka AO, The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Igor Zabralov

Director for Sustainable Development of the Russian Environmental Operator

Alexey Zavarzin

Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Agrobiotechnology at the ITMO National Research University

Sergey Zagrebelny

Senior Researcher at the Marine Mammals Department of the Department of Commercial Aquatic Organisms, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Alexander Zakondyrin

Director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute "Ecology"

Vladimir Zvantsev

Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Reserves of Taimyr"

Sergey Zraychikov

Director of Sochi Aquarium LLC

Sergey Zybko

Director General, “Glavsevmorput”

Andrey Ilyukhin

Chief Designer of the Scientific and Technical Center for Environmental Monitoring and Ecology of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Victor Ilyukhin

Head of Roszapovedcenter, The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

Olga Iontseva

Chief Manager of the Norilsk Nickel Project Activity and Environmental Assessment Department

Sergey Kavry

An indigenous resident of the village of Vankarem, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Monitoring Service

Alexander Kalaev

Deputy Director of the Department for the Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and the Implementation of Infrastructure Projects of the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Andrey Karavaev

Deputy Director of the Strategic Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Transport

Vladislav Karasevich

Associate Professor of the Department (Basic) of Renewable Energy Sources, Gubkin Russian State University of Petroleum and Gas (National Research University)

Egor Kirillin

Head of the Group of Behavioral Ecology of Mammals, Senior Researcher at the Zoological Research Department, Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ignaty Kirillov

Artistic Director of the Arctic Theater Platform

Alexander Kirilov

Director of the Russian Arctic National Park

Andrey Kirnos

Member of the Board of the Russian Association of Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Transport

Yury Klochkov

Rector of Tyumen Industrial University

Sofia Kovalevich

Expert on ecologization, program producer of the Dobro.rf Association

Sergey Kozlov

Director General, Constriction Bureau “Energiya”

Sergey Korlykhanov

First Deputy Executive Director, "The Russian Geographical Society"

Victoria Kornienko

Co-founder of the Ocean Economics Association, Director of Sustainable Development

Maxim Korolkov

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation

Anatoly Kosyak

Head of the Scientific Department Beringia National Park

Pavel Kochkarev

Director of the Central Siberian State Biosphere Reserve

Nadezhda Krasilnikova

Director of the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Olga Krever

Deputy Director, Roszapovedcenter, The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

Andrey Krivorotov

Acting Head of the Innovation Management Department of the Odintsovo Branch of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Alexander Kudryavtsev

First Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Food of the Chukotka Autonomous Region

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Director of the Vostokgosplan institution

Alexander Kulizhnikov

Head of the Department of Methods of Designing Highways of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution "ROSDORNII"

Roman Kurynin

Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

Ivan Kushch

Director of the Department for International Cooperation in the Sphere of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia

Andrey Lisovsky

Senior Researcher at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Denis Litovka

Director of the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Chukotka Arctic Scientific Center

Varvara Lukashina

Deputy Director of the Project Management Center of the Scientific and Educational Center "North"

Irina Makanova

Director of the Department of State Policy and Regulation in the Sphere of Development of Specially Protected Natural Territories

Alexander Makarov

Director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Elena Maklashova

Chief Researcher, Head. Department of Ethnosociology of the Institute of Humanitarian Studies and Problems of the Small Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Political Sciences, Doctor of Sociological Sciences

Alexander Malev

Deputy Director of Kazan Zoo Nursery

Hassan Malikov

Head of the Youth Policy Department of the Chukotka Autonomous Region

Svetlana Malysheva

Director of the Zoo of Udmurtia

Maxim Malyshev

Volunteer of the Clean Arctic project, Associate Professor of the Moscow Automobile and Road Engineering State Technical University

Ivan Matveev

General Director of Integration Laboratory LLC

Anton Melnik

Head of the Scientific Research Institute for Advanced Research and Innovative Technologies in the Field of Life Safety at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

Vladimir Melnik

Arctic Security Expert

Galina Melnikova

Operational Risk and Sustainability Group Manager, Kept

Alexey Merzly

Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences

Igor Mishukov

Head of the MUSK OX project.RUSSIAN FEDERATION", LLC "ABSOLUT"

Denis Mokeev

The general director of LLC "Map of the hunter"

Ilya Mordvintsev

A leading researcher at the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Anna Morozova

Head of the Center for Sustainable Development

Elena Mudrik

Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Population Genetics at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Igor Muraev

Vice-Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region

Andrey Nagibin

Head of the Clean Arctic Project Office

Serhey Naydenko

Director, Institute of Ecology and Evolution A.N. Severtsov

Faina Nedbai

Director of the St. Petersburg Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation of St. Petersburg

Aysen Nikolayev

Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Igor Nikolaev

Deputy Director of the Department for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources of RusHydro

Nikolay Novichkov

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Member of the Committee for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic

Rustam Novruzov

Deputy Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, Head of the Department

Pavel Nikolayevskiy

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Republic of Karelia

Alexander Nogin

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Sergey Oleinik

Technical Director, Ecofactor Environmental Center

Anna Otke

Senator of the Russian Federation, Representative of the Executive Body of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Pavel Orekhov

Head of the Department of Development of the potential of specially protected natural territories, ANO "Center for Tourism Development in the Polar Urals"

Danila Panchenko

Researcher at Paan National Park

Larisa Pestrikova

Scientific Secretary of the Polar Branch of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Alexandra Petrova

Interregional public organization "Association of Polar Explorers"

Alexey Petrov

Acting Head of the Department of Electric Power Engineering and Automation of the N.M. Fedorovsky Polar State University

Natalya Petrova

Director, The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum

Andrey Pimenov

Deputy Director of the Scientific and Technical Complex "Nature" of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Maria Pogozheva

Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring of the State Oceanographic Institute

Alexander Polubekhin

Head of the Innovative Technology Center of the Scientific Policy Complex of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Olesya Polunina

Head of the Moscow Arctic Library of Moscow

Lyudmila Poplavskaya

Head of the Center for the Implementation of the Federal project "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecotourism Development" of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Analytical Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation"

Konstantin Protodyakonov

Head of the Paleontology Department at the Museum of Nature and Man

Remchukov Maxim

Director of the Recycling and Sustainable Solutions Development Division at SIBUR

Anna Ridiger

Deputy Director of the National Committee for Environmental Safety

Vyacheslav Rozhnov

Chief Researcher at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician

Alexander Saburov

Director of the Institute for Strategic Development of the Arctic, Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Aleksandr Savchenko

Deputy Governor - Chairman of the Government, Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Alexander Savchenko

Head of the Department of Hunting Resource Management and Conservation at the Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Siberian Federal University, Doctor of Biological Sciences

Alexey Salimon

Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the National Research University of Technology

Pavel Sarafannikov

President-Chairman, The Management Board of the National Association of Liquefied Gas Producers Association

Natalia Samsonova

Head of the Strategic Development Sector of Vostokgosplan

Stanislav Seleznev

Vice President for Environment and Industrial Safety, PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel

Arkady Semenov

Director of the Lena Pillars National Park

Valery Semyonov

Deputy Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Elizabeth Serdyukova

St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II

Natalia Serkova

Head of the Department of Cultural Projects of the Arktikugol Trust, Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Bulletin of Svalbard magazine

Danila Sidyakov

Master's degree student at MGIMO International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy

Ruslan Sleptsov

State Inspector in the field of environmental protection in specially protected natural areas

Elena Smirnova

Department of Industrial Safety, Labor Protection and the Environment of the Vostok Oil Project and Offshore Projects

Olga Smirnova

Director of the Center for Strategic Planning at the Security Council of the Russian Federation

Konstantin Sokolov

Deputy Director of the Polar Branch of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Anatoly Solovyov

Director of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Somov

Chief Specialist of the Marine Mammals Department of the Department of Commercial Aquatic Organisms of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

Igor Studenov

Ministry of Agriculture and Trade of the Arkhangelsk Region

Anna Subbotina

Deputy Director General of the Clean Seas Environmental Foundation

Timofey Sulima

Acting Director of the Department of Educational, Scientific and Technical Activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation

Ildar Sultanguzin

Professor at the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute"

Veronika Tarbaeva

Chairman of the Commission on the Agro-industrial Complex, Rural Areas, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Management and Ecology of the Public Chamber of the Leningrad Region

Andrey Telegin

Head of the Service for the Formation of expositions and accounting of aquatic Organisms of the Primorsky Aquarium of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vadim Timoshenko

Head of the Laboratory of the Stratospheric Systems Engineering Center at Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Maya Timchenko

Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Yana Tikhomirova

Head of the Wildlife Conservation, Nature Management and Environmental Monitoring Service of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Mariana Tokunova

Veterinarian of the Moscow Zoo, specialist in diseases of wild and exotic animals

Alexey Tomilin

Member of the Expert Council of the Independent Expert Community

Natalia Tornqvist

Founder, President of the Russian charitable foundation "Rebirth of Nature"

Oleg Tregubov

Leading Researcher at the N.A. Shilo Northeastern Integrated Research Institute

Victor Trubitsin

Head of Biological Service of Crocus City Aquarium, Kazakhstan

Dmitry Fedoseev

Head of the Clean Arctic Projects

Nadezhda Filippova

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the innovation and research project "Development of multimodal mobility in the Arctic zone of Russia" MADI

Anastasia Frolova

Coordinator of the corporate volunteering program "Combine of Good", Norilsk Nickel

Vyacheslav Halaman

Leading Researcher at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Albert Chabdarov

Deputy Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug - Head of the Department of Natural Resources, Ecology and Agro-Industrial Complex of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug